Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — Lafagan’s Logic. [ARTICLE]

Lafagan’s Logic.

When a young man concludes that he is really of no account in this world I do not care how soon he commences to part his hair in the middle. Most every man has had opportunities to get rich, but there is only now and then one who finds it out before it is everlastingly too late. Some people are too modest, and others too impudent, to accomplish their best wOrk in this world. I favor just enough modesty to conceal impertinence. I hold that a man has a perfect right to make a drunken sot of himself to gratify his ambition, but Ido not approve of his dragging down a wife and seven children with him to disgrace. I have faith in intelligent, modest religion, but not much in the ostentatious street-corner religion with brass-band accompaniment. If a person can not be redeemed by rational means he or she is hardly worth redeeming. _— A little boy once called out to his fatht r, who had mountedhis horse for a journey, “Good-by, papa; I love yon thirty miles long!” A little sister quickly added, “Good-by, dear papa; you will never ride to the end of my love 1” ■ ‘ - A ship is often saved by itsdanchpr, but men are as often lost by their rancor. ■Hope is an incentive to action—and the froth on the cup of life.